While Jesus was dining at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, Jesus reportedly gave this lesson:
Of course many churches and other groups do an honorable job of feeding the poor and the homeless. This activity usually occurs in church basements or outside. This instruction, however, refers to when one is having their own dinner presumable at their own home.Luke 4:12 He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. 13 But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, 14 and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
Are friends, relatives or rich neighbors proper dinner guests?
Are followers of Jesus expected to do this today or is it one of those things like the "Rich Young Ruler" being told to sell his possessions and give to the poor which some suggest is no longer necessary?
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